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"It's absurd that the demining technology is still the same as it was 60 years ago. If you compare it to the development of the military industry, it is frustrating and very sad," says Jernej Cimpersek, the director of the International Trust Fund for Demining and Mine Victims Assistance in Bosnia and Herzegovina, based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. And while observing deminers in bullet-proof vests, with heavy helmets on their heads, either in a standing position or on their knees, who slowly, inch by inch, pierce the soil in front of them with metal sticks, these 2,300 square kilometres of mine-polluted Bosnia seem to offer a steady job for more than one generation of Bosnians. |
